Differential geometric path planning of multiple UAVs

Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 620-632

  Shanmugavel, Madhavan ^a   Tsourdos, Antonios ^a   White, Brian A ^a   Zbikowski, Rafaeł ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordinated guidance; Dubins sets; Path planning; Pythagorean hodograph; Trajectory generation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; MOTION PLANNING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEED;

COORDINATED GUIDANCE; DUBINS SETS; MULTIPLE PATHS; PYTHAGOREAN HODOGRAPH; TRAJECTORY GENERATION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35148864432     PISSN: 00220434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2767657     Document Type: Article

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